 It had clear, dry weather that "permitted outdoor filming for much of the year.In addition, southern California offered a variety of landscapes, including ocean, desert, mountain, forest, and hillside"

Camille Johnson-Yale has argued that from a semantics perspective, the term "runaway production" (and the discourse surrounding it) arises from an implicit interpretation of Hollywood as "the authentic home to global film production, and all others as its inauthentic, even criminal, harborers.